Tonight, teleserye viewers will be saying goodbye to miracle boy Santino, of the soap “May Bukas Pa” Yesterday’s scene ended with the little boy falling through a flight of stairs and hitting his head in the process. His brother, who was also having visions, saw him with a pool of blood under his head. We are left hanging… Will the police get to him in time? Will Bro intervene and save the young boy’s life? Or will He heed his prayer to join his parents in the after-life?
I wonder how many people will be tuned in to their TV sets tonight to find out?
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We have a flatbed scanner, but because we don’t have much space here, I don’t keep it out all the time. Right now, it is stowed away somewhere in my room. That isn’t really good because you have to go through all the effort just to scan one picture. I wanted to scan the map we got from our visit to Enchanted Kingdom, but I’m not even sure if the entire thing will fit? Hmm… I think what we have is an a3 scanner, Canon brand.
Another thing that’s ticking me off right now, aside from the fact that my eyes are having an allergic reaction to whatever and are watery and itchy all the time, is that I cannot find my Bamboo pen tablet. As in. It was in a paper bag on top of the box of vacuum cleaner last time I saw it. But my dad had to rearrange things and now it’s nowhere to be found. Grr. I had a Pen Tablet class at JessicaSprague which started on Monday that I haven’t even started yet.
I don’t know the artist who sang the song but I have been listening and singing to this for the past three days 🙂 The lines are sooo cheesy and you’ve heard them before as the cheesiest pick up lines, Pinoy style. Everyone can relate! 🙂
If I were to have a prenup video, this would be a fun background music. Haha 🙂 Enjoy!
I don’t know how long I’ve been a member, but searching my blog using Entrecard as a keyword takes me to this post from August 2008 about Entrecard hopping.
What is Entrecard?
Entrecard is a blogging network that has so far helped me build traffic and network with other bloggers. I have found some interesting blogs that I would have probably not have found without their widget. The service also brings you readers and some would actually come out and participate. By this I mean that they would actually stop to read your posts, and if they find it interesting, would even leave you comments.
Why would you stick with Entrecard?
Unlike other traffic exchange systems, Entrecard is exclusively for blogs. Okay, maybe not strictly exclusive, because I’ve landed on some pages that are not blogs, but those are the exception. You pretty much control the sites you visit too.
The Widget and how it works
You would know that a blogger is part of the Entrecard community, if you see her sporting the widget. Here’s an example:
When you sign up for Entrecard, the first thing that you should do, is to design your Ad or Business Card. This 125×125 (pixels) logo* works the way real-life business cards do. When you meet somebody and you would like to do business with them again, or you simply want to stay in touch, you exchange cards. Correct? In Entrecard, it works this way: on a member site you look for the Widget which is normally found above the fold (we’ll talk more about that later), then to let the member know that you’ve been by AND to earn credits, you “drop” your card on his widget. All you do is click on the Drop button. Of course, to see the Drop button, you must be logged on to the system. If not, you’ll see “Get one” instead.
Within the Entrecard site, users have an Inbox where they can see all the cards that have been dropped on them:
To return the visits, all you need to is click on their ECs, and drop on their widgets.
How can you have your EC on someone else’s widget?
You have to purchase a spot on the widget, just like purchasing ad space. Here though, you don’t need money to pay for the spot because transactions are done via credits. You earn one EC credit per drop you make. There was a time that you also earned one credit for each drop made on your widget but I think this was already discontinued.
Now, it doesn’t cost the same amount of credits to advertise across all sites in the network. This actually depends on how many ads are on queue for that blog (they call it 2 to the power of queue). When you start out, you have no ads displayed (except for EC ads that is) so it would only cost 2 ECs to purchase a 24 hour spot. The more spots reserved, the more expensive your spot goes. I think mine is currently at 128 ECs/day, others go for 2000!
The value of the ad spot is determined by how many click throughs you get. I feel that I don’t get as much ad requests because when someone places an ad on my widget, they don’t get much clicks to their sites. The EC Dashboard gives you statistics on that.
You can have control of the ads you want displayed on your widget, you could also set it to auto-approve if that’s what you want.
Can you make money on Entrecard?
Well, there was a time that you could make money directly on Entrecard. There was a shortlived cashout system in exchange for credits that you accumulate. I was waiting for a ten dollar cashout, but sadly, there wasn’t enough to go around and the program was cancelled without me receiving a single dollar. BUT, the traffic and the readers that EC brings to your blog could help you in your other money-making channels. 🙂
EC has gone through a lot of controversies and changes in the past six months. Some of these has caused the departure of some users. But I have chosen to stay. Other members have wrote extensively on the topic, so I won’t be talking about that.
In the end, Entrecard serves its main purpose of providing a system by which bloggers could connect and build traffic. It’s also quite easy to figure out 🙂
So there you go Joanne, I hope I finally explained Entrecard for you 🙂
*If you don’t know how to make one, there are text cards that are already available within the site that you just add your name to. If you ask nicely, I can make one for you 🙂
I know I said that I would have to consider giving away (or selling) books after I’ve read them, but I don’t think I’ll be doing that for Inkheart.
Yes it’s a novel written with young readers in mind, and I think that’s my absolute favorite genre of all time 🙂 Anyone who loves reading, and has a heart for books would definitely appreciate this novel. I guess it would be accurate to say that books are in the heart of this work of fiction.
However, I was a bit confused in the beginning because I couldn’t quite put a finger on what specific time the story was set to. 12-year-old Meggie and his book doctor father Mo seemed to be living in this world and this time, but what age specifically, I could not understand. The way the countryide was described, and how Mo makes a living, sounds so medieval. And why doesn’t Meggie’s dad have a real job like everyone else? Come to think of it, in all the characters in the book, it is only Fenoglio who has a “job” that is still relevant upto this day. Oh okay, maybe there are book restorers but I highly doubt it. I mean, if you were searching for jobs in Philadelphia for example, will you find a book doctor on the list? I don’t think so. Are there still jugglers and fire eaters that just go from town to town to earn a living? Okay, maybe there are. Yet, there are also elements of their setting that says they’re in the 21st century. Hmm. But you’d get over that confusion, or decide that it isn’t essential to the story after all.
I don’t normally review plots, characters, and other stuff you’d expect from proper book reviews, so if that’s what you’re after, go ahead and Bing it.
So why I do like Inkheart?
It tells about how reading takes you to places and allows you to go on adventures that otherwise would have been too dangerous for you. If you devote time to your reading and cherish each word, you can almost smell, touch and see into that world. Books feed the escapist in us, just as movies and TV shows do. 🙂
Each book is its own world and taking a character out and bringing them here would be like taking fish out of water. Pero, just like each person is different from another, some characters may be able to survive and adapt to our fast-paced world and make it their own. Malas nga lang kasi, it’s the bad guys who seem to have thrived in this world (dun lang naman sa book).
I envy Elinor and her house full of books. I’d always thought that when our family finally builds our own home, we’ll have a library or rows upon rows of bookshelves. But here we are, in what seems would be our permanent residence, and it’s too small to contain all the books we’ve every owned. But that’s okay. 🙂
We can’t choose the world we are born into, but we can definitely change our story. Diba? In Twilight, if I remember correctly, Edward said something about just playing with the cards you’re dealt with. But we can play the game to win, even if we have the losing hand. Parang ganun din yun, it’s not too late to change the outcome of your lifestory. Is this what Inkheart was really trying to teach us? I don’t think so. But that’s what I was thinking of by the end of the novel.
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